PUZZLE PICTURE. A NOTED AMERICAN. WHO IS IIEf ut oat thp plecm nnil IIIIHIC I In-in loKcllicr MO MM to form A perfect picture CHINA'S CREDIT. I'ltlirna of the Umpire I.ontli to Lroil Tlieir Money to I lie Gov ern meiit. The following is an English trans lation in the Shanghai Mercury from the Chinese paper, Shen I'ac: The Shen I'ao laments the fact that Ihe Chinese people are not as ready as people in the west to lend money to the government. In China the rulers look upon the empire as a fam ily to be administered for their pri vate advantage. In western lands the people are the kingdom and the rulers act according to that principle. For example, if a wealthy land owner wishes to borrow money and applies to his children and servants they are all willing tohelphim accord ing to their ability, for they know t he land owner has property enough to make repayment sure. Now, the em peror is the father and mother of his people. Why cannot he, on the same principles, borrow money from his people? It must be because they do not trust him. All foreign countries have national debts, which they owe to their own people chiefly and only to other coun tries in a small degree. The govern ments have no difliculty in floating loans, which are at once covered by their own people, who have such con fidence in their governments that they lend money freely. There is mutual Irust and love between upper and lower classes. Even if the time for re payment is hundreds of years off they do not mind, for they know they will pet their interest as long as the king dom lasts. 1 Too Many Home- Wreckers Abroad By REV. DR. BRADDIN HAMILTON, of Newport. -mrmn-MTTIITT-FRIRI I FRI I ■■■IIIIBIIBHIIIIHI MI There are too many home-wreckers abroad in the land. By home-wreckers I mean men who enter your home to steal Iyour wife and women who enter your home to steal your husband. To put it another way —men who lead away the mother of your children, women who wreck the life of the father of your home. ou enterta ' n these people, you introduce them \ to your friends, you offer them your hospitality. 1 bey reciprocate—these outwardly "perfect la dies ' and "perfect gentlemen"—by disrupting your j* family—by tempting your wife or husband to break Rev. Braddin Hamilton. thdr VOWS and tO play false to them selves, their family, their children and their God. USUALLY THE HOME-WRECKER IS THE "FRIEND OF THE b AMIL\ . ' Avoid them—these "friends of the family." They are dangerous. It is the educated, polite, well-bred thief who is the most dangerous of all. I hey are beneath contempt, these hypocrites who operate in the mask of friendship. And the majority of these home-wreckers parade as church-mem bers. CHURCH-MEMBERS! GOD SAVE THE MARK. An alyze for a moment the methods of the home-wrecker. He enters a home. He begins his campaign for his friend's wife. He is studiously gallant, so polished! So sympathetic! so confidential! so dependent on her counsel! Then comes the veiled attack on the husband: "How can he be away from you a moment!" "What a lucky fellow he is!" and more of the same, until bis object is accomplished. And after the woman, tempted by flattery, succumbs, after she has deserted hus band, home, children, he hauls her to the divorce court, this "friend of the family, so that the law may put the stamp of his ownership upon her. A church-member! Do you think a man could be under the influence of a church and at the same time persuading some woman to desert her children, to be left orphans, worse than orphans—ob jects of pity and ridicule? Do you suppose a woman cares for the censure of a church, who so coldly is wrecking some man's life, get ting him to turn his children adrift to be cared for by legal guardians and other sharks who have no interest in them only ?s to what they can get out of the poor little things. YET THESE PEOPLE USUALLY ARfc SENSITIVE AI3OUI TTIEIR SOCIAL STANDING. If they gel society's sanc tion, they do not care about the church's censure. A HOME-WRECKER SHOULD NOT ISE RECEIVED IN SOCIETY, nor in the homes of the land. The home life must be kept unsullied. If it is not, our noble country will goto pieces as rap idly as it came into prominence and prosperity. How different it is in China. The people will not lend their money to the state, and no promises will move them. The curious thing is that the bigger the national debt of these for eign countries the more prosperous is the country. Thus, Japan is an in stance in point. This is because the money was borrowed for the benefit of the people, that railways, etc., might be built. Inasmuch as much money has been loaned to Japan br other states these are unwilling to injure her by going to war with her. Now, Turkey is loaded with debt and seems an exception to the rule above enumerated. But she only proves the rule. Why is she so poor? Because •she borrowed money and wasted it. She did not use it to build public works, which would bring in vast profits. If China borrows for right uses a national debt need be no hin drance to her prosperity; nay, it may be an indispensable help on the path of progress. Isonu-l.i ve«l Family. At Buda-Pesth a man of S8 at tempted suicide by jumping off a sus pension bridge, because he found him self no longer able to maintain his father and mother, aged respectively 115 and 110. Police investigation found the man's story was true in every particular. Chicago Inter Ocean. <iraln TrnnHpoi'tntlon In TurUrj-. Horses, mules and donkeys go load ed to market in Turkey, but the road is strewn with grain leaking from the old sacks, and thousands of turkeys, which may be bought at 12 cents apiece, feed on the dropping grain.— X. Y. Sun. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1901. THE DEPTH OF ROOTS. ■ 101 l of Proper Tfilurf 111 Able to Sup port Trent with Hat I.ittle Sur face Moisture. ITow deep will trees root? Tli» an swer is impossible to give at this time, as not sufficient data has been colleet jcd to give the information desired even for a single variety. But the dept,Ji of rooting of most plants is found on investigation to be fur great er than has been suspected. In the accompanying illustration we show a peach tree that was grown at the Arizona experiment station. The soil or earth is shown to the depth of 34 roJtlna of I pea.cK \ u *&Aii '-'-i u 5 Silk HOW TKEE HOOTS GROW. feet, at which point the soil water or water table is found in this case. It will be noted that the roots reach a depth of liO feet, and are then 12 feet above the water table or soil water in the soil. It will also be noted that the spread of the tree in nowise cor responds to the spread of the roots in the soil. It has been a popular fancy that the spread of the branches of a tree represents the spread of its roots. This fallacy should have been explod ed without the use of diagrams, but it has not been. We all know that when trees are grown in tubs the branches cover a square area very much greater than the surface of the tub. The most important lesson to be learned from this illustration is that soil of proper texture is able to support trees with very little surface moisture. This explains why some of 'jur apple and peach orchards have been little affected by the droughts that have destroyed other economic plants. MAKING USE OF ASHES. Coal Cinclem Mnke Kxcellent Walk* and Wood Amlk-n Are an Lzoel l<*nt Fertiliser. Many a farmer's door yard is made unsightly by an ash heap, for such a place soon becomes the dumping heap for all trash. Many farmers, where wood is burned, still have the leach log or barrel and save Ihe ashes for mak ing lye soap. If these ashes were used judiciously as a fertilizer we question the economy of the home soap making, especially where a farmer's family will purchase soap by the box. If one family feels this is more than it is able to do, surely several families may be found who will gladly assist in pur chasing a whole box of soap. Then, the thrifty housewife knows that soap which has been stored for some months will waste less, and this is an economy that is not always fully ap preciated. But for those ash heaps. If coal is burned, you will have material for ex cellent walks that will save much mud from the house. The writer knows a walk made of coal cinders that has been used for several years without any additional labor. The cinders and coal ashes were piled up well, and the walk was then much used. Put the wood ashes on the strawber ry bed and in the orchard. Ashes in telligently used on the strawberry bed will purchase a box of desirable soap with much less work than making them up into soap that is so hard on the skin, and which, while it takes the dirt out of the clothes, also takes out the color and renders all mate rial washed with it more tender. Keep the ashes dry and use them as a fer tilizer, and feed the charcoal to the pigs. If managed in this way the ash liea)) will disappear from the door yard and the ashes J>e made of profit able use.—Rural World. Some Early Asphalt Roail*. History and tradition have fur nished us with the basic information which has guided us in building the cvilization of to-day. Its said that in prehistoric times the Incas of Peru built roads that extended from the tropically heated valleys up the moun tains to the regions of perpetual frost, using the natural asphalt rock, and these roads are in good condition to day. The discovery of a large section in Kentucky covered with asphalt rock, which scientists have pronounced a perfect nnd natural combination of asphalt and quartz sand, most valuable for paving purposes and far superior to any artificial combination that ?ould be made, is of vital importance. The day may not be far distant when every city and village will have all streets paved with asphalt rock, a ma terial which is not only the most dur able but cleanly and noiseless.—Amer ican Asphalt Journal. The dairy woman who churns before "sun up" in the morning often makes firm grained butter without the u*« of ioe. HORSE G JARDS VALUABLES. Do» Illclea «:<(>,OUO Worth of Dia mond* In CresreiiN' Stall In u Hall road Cur. The SIOO,OOO champion trotter Cres ceus was guardian the other day of a bag of diamonds worth $30,000 all through the prank of George 11. Ketcham's $3,000 dog, named Cresceus after the hoi.se. When Mr. Ketcham woke up in his berth he. reached un der his pillow for the bag of diamonds he liad placed there on retiring. He found no diamonds. After a frantic search lie hurried Tim Murnan to re port the loss to the police. Tim, followed by the dog, went hack to the car in which Cresceus was stabled. Immediately the dog .began burrow ing in the straw of the stall, and pres ently came up with the missing bag in his mouth. "The dog took charge of those dia monds while I took charge of a bur ' glar who was trying to steal them in ! « Boston hotel," said Ketcham. "He [ must have taken them from my bed. | They were perfectly safe, for Cresce us won't let anyone but the dog come into his stall." Brltluli Prnlae American ltook."W Commenting on the annual report of the United States bureau of animal industry, the London Times says that though the work appears somewhat late there can be nothing but praise for this grand volume, which is wor thy of the greatest bureau of animal industry in the world. The contents show that the interests of American stock breeders are well looked after by the department of agriculture at Washington. The numerous articles in the volume, says the Times, are all of high practical interest. Influence of Food. What do you think of the theory that food has a potent influence in determining characterasked Mr. Bmithfield, as he put three lumps of sugar in his coffee. "I guess it's all right," replied Mr. Wood, as he severed a portion of his beefsteak. It always seems a little cannibalistic to me when you order lobster." "Well," retorted Mr. Smithfield, good numoredly, "I ought to have known it was dangerous to lend you money alter 1 discov ered your fondness for beet's. But, serious ly, if there were anything in the theory, wouldn tit make a man sheepish to eat mutton? "It. would, and prize fighters ought to restrict themselves to a diet of scraps."— Pittsburg Gazette. Thro IV n from II In Cnb and K llled. The following is a most interesting and, in one respect, pathetic tale:— Mr. J. Pope, 42 i'errar Road, Streatham, I said: I "Yes, poor chap, he is gone, dead—horse bolted, thrown on his seat on his cab he was driving and killed—poor chap, and a good | sort, too, mate. It was him, you see, who gave me the half-bottle of St. Jacobs Oil i that made a new man of me. "fwas like i this: me and Bowman were great friends. ! Some gentleman had given him a bottle of j St. Jacobs Oil which had done hini a sot [ of good; he only used half the bottle, and remembering that 1 had been a martyr to rheumatism and sciatica for years, that I had literally tried everything, had doc tors, and all without benefit, I became dis couraged, and looked upon it that there was no help for me. Well," said Pope. "You may not believe me, for it is a miracle, but before 1 had used the contents of the half bottle of St. Jacobs Oil which poor Bow man gave me, I was a well man. There it is, you see, after years of pain, after using rem edies, oils, embrocations, horse liniments, and spent money on doctors without get ting any better, I was completely cured in a few days. I bought another bottle, think ing the pain might come back, but it did i not, so I gave the bottle away to a friend who had a lame back. I can't speak too highly of this wonderful pain-killer." Accounting for It. Blanche—lt isn't easy to find anything new in wedding presents. May—No. So many people have been married. —Puck. On Dec. 3rd and 17th the Norfolk & West ern Ry. will sell round trip tickets from (Cincinnati and Columbus to points in the Yirginias and Carolinas at greatly reduced rates. For all information as to rates, address Allen Hull, D. P. A., 45 E. 4th St., Cincin nati. The youthful lawyer's profession is usual ly better than his practice.—Chicago Daily News. To Care a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggist s refund money if it fails to cure. 25c Contentment gives a crown, where for tune hath denied it.—Ford. Dropsy treated free bv Dr. H. H. Green's Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy specialists in the world. Read their adver tisement in another column of this paper. Many a man's head is full of emptiness.— Chicago Daily News. PI FADELESS DYES are as easy to Ufc us soap. No muss or failures. If some people hadn't debts they wou\d not have anyahing.—lndianapolis New*. It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.—Rochefoucauld. ♦ It's good to forgive, but it's better to for get. Best of all, just don't. —Town Topics. The Elevator Man—"Going up?" The Caller—"How soon are you coming back?" It is natural for you to lean on others; but don't lean too heavily. Atchison Globe. . Nobody thinks church services are as fre quent as the janitor does. —Washington (la.) Democrat. "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady," but it has saved its owner many a jar.—lndian apolis News. 0 Be virtuous,*' said the pessimistic moral ist, "and you will not be so unhappy as you would be otherwise."—Puck. It is not the way a man saves his money that gets him a reputation for stinginess. It is the way he spejids it. —Indianapolis News. To be right, no doubt, is better than to be president, hut there is a distressing lack of emoluments connected with it. —In- dianapolis News. We should feel greatly obliged to the muse if she would tell us how to become a rich poet.—Puck. The Elevator Man—"Right away." The Caller--"Then 1 guess I'll walk. I may want to stay up there some time."—lndian apolis News. Appropriate. Cassidy "Oi want a wreath av flowers, an' put on it 'lie Rest in Pieces. " Florist —"Don't you mean: 'He Rests in Peace?' " Cansidy—"Oi mane nhwat Oi Bed. 'Tie fur Casey, tliot was blowed up in the quarry."—Philadelphia Press. Keeping; the Secret. Old Bachelor Uncle—Well, Charlie, what do you want now? Charlie—Oh, 1 want to be rich. "Rich! Why so?" "Because I want to be petted. Ma Fays you are an old fool, but must be petted, because you are rich. But it's a great se cret, and I mustn't tell it!"— Stray Stories. Public Protected. Hon. Judge Wing of the Federal Court of Cleveland has issued a permanent injunc tion with costs and damages enjoining a lawyer named Gorey from the manufacture and sale of an imitation of Cascarets. Gorey imitated the boxes, the shape of the tablet and used a similar sounding name. Any dealer who will offer a substitute or say that something "is just as good" when Cas carets are called for, does it for the purpose of making a few cents extra profit, which must always be at the expense of the cus tomer's health. Cascarets have been advertised freely in our columns and as the result of making them known. Cascarets to-day have the largest sale of any bowel medicine in the world. They are always packed in metal boxes with the long tail "C" on the cover and each tablet stamped C. C. C. They are never sold in bulk or from jars. Readers are warned against imitations or substitutes of this meritorious medicine, and if at any time they have been offered a substitute or an offer to sell something "just as good" when Cascarets have been asked for, write direct to the Sterling Remedy Company, New York or Chicago. All ToKetlicr. "Give me a room with a good fire in ft," cried the storm-beaten traveler. "Gee whiz! but I'm wet." "Yes, sir," said the landlord of the way side inn. "And, landlord, bring me a brandy and soda. Gee whiz! but 1 m dry!"— Philade lphia Press. ItiKlicat Award on Cocoa nnd Chocolate. The Judges at the Pan-American Exposi tion, Buffalo, have awarded three gold medals to Walter Baker & Co. Limited, Dorchester, Mass., for the superiority of their Breakfast Cocoa and all of their cocoa and chocolate preparations, and the excel lence of their exhibit. This is the thirty-seventh highest award received by them from the great expositions in Europe and America. A Shrewd Man. Gooph—Old Gettit is a smooth customer. Whoop—So they say. "Did you ever hear about the time Boom ville offered a subsidy for manufacturing establishments, and he planted a rhubarb field and got in on the fund, because lie was promoting several pie plants."—Balti more American. Beat tor the llowcla, No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. Cascarets help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy, natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. lion' Slie Know. "That is your husband rapping!" an nounced the medium in a solemn voice. "My husband rapping?" said the widow, absently; "gracious! he must have for gotten his night key!"— Philadelphia Rec ord. Persons contemplating a journey East or West should be careful that the rates paid for their transportation do not exceed those charged by the Nickel Plate Road. This company always offers lowest rates and the service is efficient. Careful at tention is given to the wants of all first and second class passengers by uniformed colored attendants. The dining car service of the Nickel Plate Road is above criticism and enables the traveler to obtain meals at from thirty-five (35) cents to SI.OO but no higher. The Pullman service is the usual high grade standard. Semi-weekly transconti nental tourist cars ply between Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. Confer with nearest agent of the Nickel Plate Road. In the Department Store. "I want to get a dog collar," said the customer. "Yes, sir," replied the absent-minded salesgentleman, who had recently been transferred to that department, "what size shirt do you wear?"— Philadelphia Press. Very ropulnr Plan. The route between New York and Chi cago by way of the Lackawanna Railroad is growing in popularity. It takes people through some of the finest scenery in Amer ica, over splendid roadbeds, in excellent cars that are noted for their fine riding qualities. The dining-car service is worked on the principle of order what you want and pay for nothing else —a plan that is very popular. You may have your meals as cheap or as expensive as you please. Service is on the European plan. Individual club breakfasts or suppers, calculated to please the most fastidious, are furnished at a minimum cost of 35 cents. More Palatable. "Good-morning," said the would-be con tributor. "How would you like to have an cssav on 'Our Daily Bread ?' " "Thanks," replied the editor, "we prefer butter. Good-uay."—Philadelphia Record. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Thos. Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y. 112 Feb. 17, 1900. A man who plays cards for a living never has anything except the backache.—Atchi son Globe. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of See Poc-Slmlle Wrapper Below. Terr null ud •• •■>? to take as avfstr. [pADTrtfcl bAKI tl\o FOR DIZZINESS. SUITTLE FOR BILIOUSNESS. IT Iy r D FOR TORPID LIVER. Mp| its Foa CONSTIPATION. M FOR SALLOW SKIN. WW IFOR THE COMPLEXION 28 cSiits 1 • CURE SICK HEADACHE* AN OPEN LETTER Address to Women by tho Treas urer of the W. €. T. U. of Kansas City, Mrs. E. €. Smith. "MY DEAK SISTERS : I believe in I advocating* and upholding everytliinjr I that will lift up and help women, and | but little use appears all knowledg-e ' and learning if you have not the health to enjoy it. | ' 2(BS. E. C. SMITH. I " naving found by personal experi ence that Lydia E. Pinlcham's "Vegetable Compound is a medi cine of rare virtue, and having seen dozens of cures where my suffering sisters have been dragged back to life and usefulness from an untimely grave simply by the use of a few bottles of that Compound, I must proclaim its virtues, or 1 should not be doing my duty to suffering mothers auddragged out housekeepers. " Dear Sister, is your health poor, j do you feel worn out and used up T j especially do you have any of the troubles which beset our sex, take my I advice; let the doctors alone, try ' Lydia E. Pinkham'-s Vegetable Compound; it is better than any and all doctors, for it cures and they do not."— MNA. E. C. SMITH, 1212 Oak St., Treasurer W. C. T. U., Kansas City, Mo.— ssooo forfeit If above testimonial la not genuine. Mrs. Plnkham advises sick wo men free. Address, liynn, Mass. New and Enlarged Edition Webster's International Dictionary of Biography, Geography, Fiction, etc. 25,000 NEW WORDS, ETC. Edited by W. T. HARRIS, Ph.D., LL.D., United States Commissioner of Education. New Plates Throughout. Rich Bindings. 2364 Pages. 5000 Illustrations. BEST FOR THE HOUSEHOLD Also Webster's Collegiate Dictionary with a valuable / X Scottish Glossary. xxoo Pages./ \ 1400 Illustrations. Size 7xxox24- fi in. | WEBSTER'S J —— I INTERNATIONAL/ Specimeu pages, etc., of both V DICTIONARYJ books sent on application. O. Ci C. Merriam Co., Springfield, Mass. Cut this out and send to the McKinley Music Co • mciGo, A iSL u * j NO PREE MUSIC CJIVEN UNLESS ACCOMPANIED BY THIS COUPON. THIS IS TO CERTIFY that I have spoken to 10 of my music-loving. music-buying friends, includ ing music teachers, whon* names I aend you here with, on a xeparate Nh<>et of paper. who would he Vlad tj receive your New Catalogue No. 21— lOt'i. For my trouble In the matter send me Free. Postpaid the TWO PIECES marked below: ; ....Jagtlme Johnson's Ragtime March. R Sweethearts True—Waits. ...Love and Friendship—Walts. ....My Ilosary—Sonu. X Because It's You—bong. ....Tho Palms—Song. I WESTERN CAMS lU'VUrVTSirVn Wonderful Wheat Crop tfifcVHPVv I f()r now the tulk of . i N j the Commercial World ;» wmi 8 by no means phenomenal. J-jlvTPUfl The Province of Mani- I . /ZljtzM l <»ba and districts of A»- af §4 sinlbola. Saskatchewan, lflf /J Wand Alberta are tbe mnsi ~ wonderful grain prodnr- inM countries in th«» v — —' world. In stock raisinu tbev also hold ihe highest p sitlon. Thousand* of Americans are annually making this their home.aafl they succeed as thv»y never did before. Move west ward with the ti«.e and secure a farm and hums In Western Canada Low rates and special privileged to iiomeseekerh and settlers. The handsome forty page Atlas of Western Canada sent free to alt applicants Apply for rates, etc.. to F. I'KDI.KV. or to JOSEPH YOUNG. .Sl>4 State St.. Kast. Colum bus. Ohio; N. M WILLIAMS, Toledo. O.; Canadian Government Agents "One reason why boys H T)i i 11 x home so little game H £ > s because they use loose m paper for wadding. Try H W—MMUM—MM HAZARD BUCK or HAZARD M SMOKELESS, properly loaded, and you will H do better shooting than ever before." £ GUN POWDER j FARM MORTGAGES I fllllfl pop SALE Small mortgages paying <1 percent, interest ©» irrigated farms in the Great Platte Valley of Nebraska, where crops never fail. Write foi information. JAS. H. CASSKI.MAN, President of The Irrigators' Bank, SCOTTBBI.OKF, NTDRASKA. Allen's Ulcerine Salve Cures Chronic I'leer*, Lone I lerm, Scrofulous IJlcrrt. 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